With a focus on multiracial perspectives on race, region, and sexuality, Quest for Blackness interrogates the efforts of diverse black subjects to transcend the objectifying limits of the white gaze and the effects of internalized hatred and...

Servants; Commerce; Estates; United States. Works Progress Administration of Louisiana

Text, December 15, 1832. Lists names and ages and describes 33 servants which are for sale at the Exchange Coffee House in New Orleans Louisiana on December 22, 1832. These servants were part of the estate of deceased Alexander McCoy.

The unpublished manuscript "The Negro in Louisiana" is a work begun by the Dillard (University) Project in 1942, an arm of the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. After the dissolution of the unit, Marcus Christian maintained and edited the document in...